{"id":211875,"date":"2015-10-07T06:06:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T20:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=211875"},"modified":"2015-10-07T06:06:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T20:06:59","slug":"ite-kicks-off-cellular-network-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ite-kicks-off-cellular-network-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"IT&#038;E kicks off cellular network expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT&amp;E confirmed that it has started installation work on its cellular network expansion in the CNMI. Both enhanced 4G capacity and new LTE equipment are presently being installed at the first cellular site locations around the islands.  IT&amp;E\u2019s contractor, IT&amp;E crews and IT&amp;E\u2019s technology partner, Ericsson, will continue to work together throughout the next few months to complete the installation work by early 2016.  IT&amp;E will install this capacity in neighboring sites to ensure the maximum benefit to its customers as these sites are activated.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_211876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211876\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NDR8397-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NDR8397-copy-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IT&amp;E contractors install equipment at a cellular site. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-211876\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IT&amp;E contractors install equipment at a cellular site. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n\u201cCustomer demand in the CNMI for our new 4G service is causing us to double the capacity of this almost new network. As the same time, IT&amp;E is excited to be the first to bring LTE service to the islands. LTE will provide our customers both with more data capacity and with significantly increased data speeds. IT&amp;E is committed to providing all of our customers with the highest quality service and this new wireless network expansion will ensure that we are meeting this commitment here in the CNMI,\u201d said John M. Compton, IT&amp;E chief operating officer. \u201cWe are very pleased that we were able to start this installation work on time and we fully expect to complete it on time.\u201d <em>(IT&amp;E)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT&amp;E confirmed that it has started installation work on its cellular network expansion in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":211876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,6896,250,70],"class_list":["post-211875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-lte","tag-network","tag-technology-2-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}